President Trump has spent billions expanding a mass deportation force while cutting healthcare and other services families depend on.

And what has that expansion looked like?

Masked agents refusing to identify themselves. Families afraid to report crimes. Imposters exploiting that secrecy. Violent encounters across the country. 

We do not believe this makes San Diego safer.

So why are we letting these same lawless federal agencies use a County facility for firearms training? 

If Washington wants to spend billions on this agenda, they can use their own resources to carry it out. They should not turn around and expect San Diego County to provide the training grounds, too.

On Tuesday, Chair Pro Tem Paloma Aguirre and I are bringing a proposal before the Board to end these agreements.

SIGN THE PETITION: No County Support for Lawless Deportations →

We’ve spent years drawing a clear line between San Diego County and federal civil immigration enforcement — strengthening County policy, passing the CLEAR Ordinance, and even taking ICE to court when it tried to block our public health inspectors.

We cannot protect due process and community trust with one hand — and provide a County training ground to Trump’s deportation force with the other.

Effective law enforcement depends on trust.

When agents hide their identities, the federal government refuses basic transparency, and families become afraid to report crimes or ask government for help, our neighborhoods do not become safer.

San Diego County should not use our facilities and resources to support that.

For years, these firing-range agreements continued without the Board or the public ever weighing in.

Now, for the first time, we get a vote. And you get a say.

Before the Board votes Tuesday, help us make clear where San Diegans stand:

SIGN THE PETITION: No County Support for Lawless Deportations →

We cannot stop everything Donald Trump does from Washington.

But we can decide what San Diego County helps him do.

Our County facilities and resources should make San Diegans safer — not support a deportation operation that is doing the opposite.